In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...

click image for close-up Although he was known primarily as a portraitist, Charles Willson Peale's The Accident on Lombard Street provides an example of how Peale used his work to make statements ...

Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established a museum in Philadelphia. Dedicated to American history and natural history, the museum's exhibits ranged from presidential ...

Faye Anderson, a public policy consultant and community historian, was on her way to Independence Hall a couple of weeks ago for her research on Moses Williams, a Black silhouette artist who had been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson ... 1,000 ...